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Thursday, January 19, 2006

Separated at birth

When I look in the mirror, who do I see staring back at me? Christina Ricci? Ronald Reagan? Sandra Bullock? According to the face recognition demo at My Heritage, those are just some of the folks my face conjours up.

Here's how it works. You upload a picture of yourself (a face-portrait-type shot), the program scans it and compares your facial structure with all the famous faces in its database. Then it gives you a list of people you most resemble (50%+). You do have to register at the website, by the way.

Now, how can any list contain both Camilla Parker Bowles and Jennifer Aniston? Well, evidently I'm some sort of Frankenstein-like combo of a horse-face and a cutie-pie. Boy, I hope I'm closer to the cutie pie.

But at the end of the day, according to My Heritage, I look most like a guy! A really, really dead guy! There's a wee bit of consolation in the fact that the dead guy was genius, however. Just a wee, wee bit. Hardly any, in fact.

6 comments:

Wow, I've got to do this once I can find a photo of my face. I hate most photos of me and in the few I've got I'm usually skulking behind someone else.

At the moment whenever I look in the mirror, all I can see is my mother, which is VERY scary, I can tell you. So I'll have to do this to replace that image and to be able to put my makeup on without vaguely feeling the need for therapy.

Yeah well I know, PT, that the picture you're using is a forgery. The Wife IS as she looks in it (gorgeous) but you've superimposed another head (does it belong to Tom Cruise with a few adjustments?) and you really are bald and black with a long flowing beard.Oops - have I let the cat out of the bag?